Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight

By Bruce Morén. 2001

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Language and Linguistics

1. KevinM . Ryan
2. L. Lombardi
3. Bruce Morén
4. Scott Myers
5. John J. McCarthy
6. Martin Krämer
7. Janet Grijzenhout

In Political Science and International Relations

1. L. Lombardi
2. KevinM . Ryan

Citations in the corpus

• Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics* (2011, background): “More generally, sonority is claimed to positively correlate with weight (Zec 1988, 1995, 2003, Morén 1999, de Lacy 2002, 2004, Gordon 2006).”
• Second language data and constraints on Manner: explaining substitutions for the English interdentals (2003, background): “The preference for moraic consonants to be more sonorous is formulated as a markedness hierarchy by Moren (1999), the relevant part of which is given in (27):”
• The puzzle of Kashmiri stress: implications for weight theory (2000, methodology): “In §§3.1 and 3.2, I will review the moraic constraints developed in Moren (1999), as well as the typological predictions that result from the interaction of those constraints.”